York revitalizes student meal plan options for coming year
Jacqueline Perlin
Assistant News Editor
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Students will be having access to brand-new meal plans come fall 2012.
The university is rolling out new meal plan options for students, reducing the minimum entry price that currently sits at $3,000 down to $2,500 for better affordability.
The new plan will also allow students to carry up to $1,600 of their untouched meal plan balances forward to ensure that student meals are not taxed by the Canada Revenue Agency.
But that isn’t all; the university is also introducing an off-campus YU card restaurant and delivery program that will accept student flex dollars and will allow students to add flex dollars to any meal plan.
According to Gary Brewer, vp finance and administration, these changes are occurring as a result of student complaints, not only with regards to the expense of the meal plans, but also to address the the limited options of food available on campus, especially in the evenings and weekends.
“From what students have told us, I think we’ve hit the points,” says Brewer.
